Venture that Horizion

Here are two more discarded drawers found at the tip - bought back to the studio and given a new life and a new meaning ... this time with more 'feminine' stories than I usually put together ... both about ladies from the last century ...

... Light as a Feather ...

Here I have used  an old mantle clock surround to frame a beautiful image of a lady of high society - from an old postcard - surrounded by delicate white feathers ... the piece is influenced by a poem I found written in 2019 by Kelly Deschler ...

Light as a Feather

Leaving old troubles and cutting the tether,

spreading these wings still light as a feather

Am free as a bird no matter the weather

just floating on air as light as a feather

Skimming the hills over lilac and heather

take wing to the clouds so light as a feather

Venture that horizon alone or together,

on a new dawning now light as a feather. 

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The frame is mounted on two antique ceramic casters giving the image of mobility and lightness. The bird images, the meaning of which is obvious, are old 1930's cigarette cards. The scrolls which appear in all my works are stories relating to the lady in question - stories which I invite the viewer to compose as they interpret the artpiece ...

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... Gather ye rosebuds while ye may ...

 
Again I have used an image of a lady of high society surrounded by silken rose petals as the inspiration of this artpiece and drawn to a well known poem - that gives good advice to us all - male and female ... 

 

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

 

  Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

    Old Time is still a-flying;

    And this same flower that smiles today

    To-morrow will be dying.

    The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,

    The higher he's a-getting,

    The sooner will his race be run,

    And nearer he's to setting.

    That age is best which is the first,

    When youth and blood are warmer;

    But being spent, the worse, and worst

    Times still succeed the former.

    Then be not coy, but use your time,

    And, while ye may, go marry:

    For having lost but once your prime,

    You may forever tarry.

Robert Herrick - 17th century.   

... under the framed image of the beautiful young dame is a small black case ...

 

... undo the latch and open the case ...

 

... to reveal the maiden - still beautiful - but now lost of her prime ...

The colourful flowers in the background are 1930's cigarette cards ...

... the handless fob watch is all about lost time
and the chains are all about waiting ...

I hope you have enjoyed my two dames and the messages 

they send to us all - at least your interpretation of those messages ...